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Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: LVM TOOLS
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NAME   Début   Précédent   Suivant   Sommaire   Préc.page.lue   Accueil
vgcreate - create a volume group  



SYNOPSIS   Début   Précédent   Suivant   Sommaire   Préc.page.lue   Accueil
vgcreate [--addtag Tag] [--alloc AllocationPolicy] [-A|--autobackup {y|n}] [-c|--clustered {y|n}] [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-l|--maxlogicalvolumes MaxLogicalVolumes] [-M|--metadatatypetype] [-p|--maxphysicalvolumes MaxPhysicalVolumes] [-s|--physicalextentsize PhysicalExtentSize[kKmMgGtT]] [-t|--test] [-v|--verbose] [--version] VolumeGroupName PhysicalVolumePath [PhysicalVolumePath...]  



DESCRIPTION   Début   Précédent   Suivant   Sommaire   Préc.page.lue   Accueil
vgcreate creates a new volume group called VolumeGroupName using the block special device PhysicalVolumePath previously configured for LVM with pvcreate(8).  



OPTIONS   Début   Précédent   Suivant   Sommaire   Préc.page.lue   Accueil
See lvm for common options.
-c, --clustered {y|n}
If clustered locking is enabled, this indicates whether this Volume Group is shared with other nodes in the cluster or whether it contains only local disks that are not visible on the other nodes. If the cluster infrastructure is unavailable on a particular node at a particular time, you may still be able to use Volume Groups that are not marked as clustered.
-l, --maxlogicalvolumes MaxLogicalVolumes
Sets the maximum number of logical volumes allowed in this volume group. The setting can be changed with vgchange. For volume groups with metadata in lvm1 format, the limit and default value is 255. If the metadata uses lvm2 format, the default value is 0 which removes this restriction: there is then no limit.
-p, --maxphysicalvolumes MaxPhysicalVolumes
Sets the maximum number of physical volumes that can belong to this volume group. The setting can be changed with vgchange. For volume groups with metadata in lvm1 format, the limit and default value is 255. If the metadata uses lvm2 format, the default value is 0 which removes this restriction: there is then no limit. If you have a large number of physical volumes in a volume group with metadata in lvm2 format, for tool performance reasons, you should consider some use of --metadatacopies 0 as described in pvcreate(8).
-s, --physicalextentsize PhysicalExtentSize[kKmMgGtT]
Sets the physical extent size on physical volumes of this volume group. A size suffix (k for kilobytes up to t for terabytes) is optional, megabytes is the default if no suffix is present. The default is 4 MB and it must be at least 1 KB and a power of 2.

Once this value has been set, it is difficult to change it without recreating the volume group which would involve backing up and restoring data on any logical volumes. However, if no extents need moving for the new value to apply, it can be altered using vgchange -s.

If the volume group metadata uses lvm1 format, extents can vary in size from 8KB to 16GB and there is a limit of 65534 extents in each logical volume. The default of 4 MB leads to a maximum logical volume size of around 256GB.

If the volume group metadata uses lvm2 format those restrictions do not apply, but having a large number of extents will slow down the tools but have no impact on I/O performance to the logical volume. The smallest PE is 1KB.

The 2.4 kernel has a limitation of 2TB per block device.

 



EXAMPLES   Début   Précédent   Suivant   Sommaire   Préc.page.lue   Accueil
To create a volume group named test_vg using physical volumes /dev/hdk1, and /dev/hdl1 with default physical extent size of 4MB:

	vgcreate test_vg /dev/sdk1 /dev/sdl1

 



SEE ALSO   Début   Précédent   Suivant   Sommaire   Préc.page.lue   Accueil
lvm(8), pvdisplay(8), pvcreate(8), vgdisplay(8), vgextend(8), vgreduce(8), lvcreate(8), lvdisplay(8), lvextend(8), lvreduce(8)


 



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Table des mots clés   Début   Suivant   Sommaire   Préc.page.lue   Accueil
-c, --clustered {y|n}OPTIONS
-l, --maxlogicalvolumes MaxLogicalVolumesOPTIONS
-p, --maxphysicalvolumes MaxPhysicalVolumesOPTIONS
-s, --physicalextentsize PhysicalExtentSize[kKmMgGtT]OPTIONS



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